The NCAA Championships wrapped up over a week ago, which has afforded myself and the inimitable Andy Hamilton enough time to compile a substantial list of stats, stories, facts, and findings from the tournament that may have escaped your attention. Some statistical information from the Mat Talk Online 2024 NCAA Wrestling Guide was used in this report. 

We've got a lot of them, an even hundo, so we're going to break them up into four more easily digestible articles. If you think we missed anything, or have anything for the corrections departments, please don't hesitate to let us know!

Part I - Part II - Part IV

3 Facts About the 2024 NCAAs

1) The Elams were the only brother tandem to both reach the podium this year. 

2) Hartland, Wisconsin produced the most points at the NCAA Championships this year with 40.5 — Missouri’s Keegan O’Toole scored 21 and Penn State’s Mitchell Mesenbrink added 19.5. 

3) Hartland Arrowhead High School produced three of the 33 wrestlers in the 165-pound bracket — O’Toole, Mesenbrink and Bucknell’s Noah Mulvaney. 

4 Facts About Iowa State at the 2024 NCAAs

1) Iowa State has had multiple All-Americans in every tournament under coach Kevin Dresser since 2018. 

2) This was the first time the Cyclones have had four All-Americans since 2009. 

3) Three of the four All-Americans return next season. Only Carr is out of eligibility. 

4) Frost, a native of Metairie, Louisiana, became the first All-American from the Bayou State since Northern Iowa’s David Bonin placed fourth in 2013. 

3 Facts About NC State at the 2024 NCAAs

1) North Carolina State qualified 10 wrestlers for the NCAA Championships for the third time in seven seasons. There were nine NC State wrestlers in the four other NCAA tournaments over that time span. 

2) The 66 qualifiers for the Wolfpack in seven tourneys is an impressive achievement on its own, but it’s more than double how many they had in the seven years before that (29). 

3) Even more impressive is the number of All-Americans for NC State at the last seven tournaments (19) compared to the seven tournaments before that (7), and the seven tournaments before that (2). Numbers are trending up and to the right in Raleigh.

Watch highlights of Trent Hidlay's semifinal bout:

6 Facts About Oklahoma State at the 2024 NCAAs

1) Oklahoma State’s 10th-place finish marked the 88th time the Cowboys have finished inside the top 10. 

2) It was coach John Smith’s 27th top-10 finish. He’s second on the all-time list, one behind former Iowa State coach Harold Nichols. 

3) Oklahoma State had 10 qualifiers and three All-Americans, including two runners-up. 

4) Daton Fix became the tournament’s second five-time placewinner, joining Michigan’s Myles Amine. 

5) Fix is the tournament’s first four-time runner-up. 

6) Fix finished his career with a 123-7 career record. Five of his seven college losses came against multi-time NCAA champions. 

3 Facts About West Virginia at the 2024 NCAAs

1) West Virginia has had seven All-Americans since 2008, including five since current head coach Tim Flynn took over in Morgantown.

2) Freshman Ty Watters’ fourth-place finish was the highest by a Mountaineer in the Flynn Era. 

3) With Peyton Hall reaching the medal round for the second time in his career, West Virginia can now claim half of all the All-American honors awarded to wrestlers from the state of West Virginia since 2006. Hall joins Noah Adams and Brandon Rader as Mountainer AAs that are from West Virginia since then. 

5 Facts About Wrestlers From Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Kentucky at the 2024 NCAAs

1) Caleb Henson became the first Georgian to win an NCAA title. 

2) There were at least 10 All-Americans from Pennsylvania for the sixth tournament in a row. The Keystone State was the only state that produced double-digit AAs. 

3) Pennsylvania leads the nation with 768 Division I All-Americans. Oklahoma is second with 565. 

4) The state of Nebraska produced its first All-American (Antrell Taylor of Nebraska) since 2017 when Aaron Studebaker placed fifth for the Huskers. The last 10 Nebraska natives to earn All-America honors have all wrestled for the Huskers. 

5) Stephen Little placed seventh at 197 for Little Rock, becoming the first All-American from Kentucky since Kyle Ruschell placed fourth for Wisconsin in 2010. 

Watch Little Rock's Stephen Little's seventh-place match: 

1 Fact About Stanford at the 2024 NCAAs

1) Stanford’s two AAs — Daniel Cardenas and Hunter Garvin — hail from Colorado and Iowa, respectively, and are the first Stanford AAs from those states.